Two evidence sprint routes.
The Urban Heat Decision Sprint is available as a fixed-scope pilot. The Geospatial Workforce Evidence Sprint remains under validation while its provenance, rights, quality and publication gates are completed. Both start from one decision question, use a bounded scope and end with the limitations stated.
One question, a bounded window, a decision at the end.
A sprint is not a retainer and not a platform build. It takes one decision question, applies open data and existing evidence to it inside a fixed scope, and hands back a brief the team can act on. Every sprint carries the same spine:
- One agreed decision question, framed with the buyer before work starts
- A fixed scope and duration, agreed in writing
- A decision brief with findings, limitations and recommended next actions
- A transparent method and data note
- A handover session with the decision owner
Anything outside the agreed question is a new conversation, not silent scope growth.
Evidence for a workforce decision.
For employers and recruiters clarifying role language and hard-to-fill capabilities, industry bodies planning workforce support, and educators testing curricula against observed demand. The sprint draws on the Geospatial Careers evidence base: a research pipeline with explicit provenance, rights, quality and publication gates. Any analysis is restricted to licence-reviewed, publication-safe aggregates and states its source date, denominator and limits.
- One workforce, hiring or curriculum decision question
- An agreed role-family, skill and geography scope
- A short buyer interview and any internal role or skills definitions
- Aggregated, publication-safe evidence from the Geospatial Careers research snapshot
- Decision and cohort framing
- Coverage, quality and licence review
- Role, skill, salary and geography analysis within the agreed scope
- Synthesis against the decision question
- Review with the buyer before finalisation
- An evidence brief with findings, denominators and confidence limits
- A methods and data note naming sources, dates and blind spots
- A prioritised set of recommendations or open questions
- A 60-minute handover and decision session
- No raw job-record, source-registry or code export.
- No recruitment, headhunting or individual candidate assessment.
- No representativeness claim beyond the stated sources, geographies and dates.
- No endorsement of a product, training course or employer.
- No recurring data feed or subscription unless separately agreed.
Evidence for a heat decision.
The heat counterpart applies the Urban Heat Diagnostic method: where heat exposure, vulnerable populations and actionable place conditions overlap, turned into a prioritised decision brief and map over ten working days. The full scope, the intended buyers and the complete exclusion list live on the diagnostic page; the summary shape is below.
- One agreed geography or asset portfolio
- Up to three decision questions
- Open Earth-observation, land-cover, built-form, demographic and access data
- Decision and data framing
- Heat, exposure and place-condition analysis
- Priority-area and intervention-opportunity synthesis
- A decision brief with findings and limitations
- An interactive or static map suited to the decision context
- A 60-minute handover and decision session
The diagnostic's exclusions apply in full, from no individual-level risk scoring to no permanent data platform. They are listed on the Urban Heat Diagnostic page.
What a sprint will not do.
The exclusions are part of each offer, not small print. Both sprints stop at the same lines, stated here in full.
- A sprint answers the agreed question; it does not audit an organisation or build a platform.
- Evidence limits and data gaps are reported, not smoothed over.
- No claim that correlation establishes causation.
- No dashboards, apps or operational systems; the deliverable is a decision, its evidence and its limits.
- Scope changes are a new agreement, not an assumption.
One available pilot, one route under validation.
The Urban Heat pilot can be commissioned when the decision and evidence fit the scope. The workforce sprint is not yet presented as a generally available service.
Have a workforce or heat decision that existing reports and maps do not resolve? Start with a 30-minute fit conversation. If a sprint is not the right route, the conversation ends with a clear no-go or a better next step.